Stick with It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life-for Good
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (631 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N9SAOTH |
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| Number of Pages | : | 117 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has a PhD in psychology and master's in health services research from Stanford University. Sean Young is a professor at UCLA medical school and the founder and executive director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior (CDB), which has been featured in the New York Times and Huffington Post, and on NPR, Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch, Mashable, CBS News, and other major media outlets.
The best book in this genre - smarter, more powerful and complex - yet still fun to read. Ariel Dana Mcnichol I think I've read every book in the genre (I'm a behavioral science aficionado) and this book is superior. It reads delightfully, but more importantly, it's chocked full of relevant, recent, fascinating research that Sean has managed to synthesize into applicable bits. My page margins are full of notesI . Vishvendra said Stick with it is Helpful if You are a Chronic Procrastinato. I bought Sean Young's book because I've been trying to find a way to stop procrastinating at work. A lot of the books that I've looked at including Stephen Covey's "7 Habits" . that one just has not resonated with me. I don't respond well to preset rules. I've been suffering at work because I can't meet . If you read the Power of Habit, you MUST read this! Stick With It provides TREMENDOUS insight into what it takes to actually change behavior. It's great for someone who wants to break a bad habit in their own life, parents who want to help their kids, a coach who wants to help his team succeed, and entrepreneurs who want to have their products used. I bou
Young explains, you don’t change behavior by changing the person, you do it by changing the process. Sean Young, an authoritative new voice in the field of behavioral science, knows a great deal about our habits—how we make them and how we can break them. An award-winning psychologist and director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior shows everyone how to make real, lasting change in their lives in this exciting work of popular psychology that goes beyond The Power of Habit with science and practical strategies that can alter their problem behaviors—forever.Whether it’s absent-minded mistakes at work, a weakness for junk food, a smart phone addiction, or a lack of exercise, everyone has some bad habit or behavior that they’d like to change. In addition he provides a powerful corrective to the decades old science of habits, offering a next generation discussion of how habits can change behavior with the right approach.Packed with pragmatic exercises and stories of real people who have used them successfully, Stick with It shows that it is possible to control spending, stick to a diet, become more social, exercise regularly, stop compulsively checking e-mail, and overcome problem behaviors—forever.. He also helps us understand how the mind often interferes with creating lasting change and how we can outsmart it, including using "neurohacks" to shortcut the brain’s counterprodu
With Stick with It, Sean Young has come to the rescue, offering a system for generating lasting change that is both scientifically grounded and personally implementable. Sean Young breaks down the science behind behavior change and offers practical and effective strategies for changing your life.'' --Amy Morin, author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do. In this book, he shares a process and tools so that we can make these changes ourselves.'' (Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author